‘Bart Ehrman provides a fascinating and highly readable account of who changed the words of the New Testament and why. With the advent of the printing press and the subsequent publishing culture that reproduces exact copies of texts en masse, most people today assume that they are reading the very words that Jesus spoke or St. Paul wrote when they consult the New Testament. And yet, for almost 1,500 years manuscripts were copied by hand by scribes - many of them untrained, especially in the early centuries of Christendom - who were deeply influenced by the theological and political disputes of their day. Mistakes and intentional changes abound in the competing manuscript versions that continue to plague biblical scholars who determine which words, phrases, or stories are the most reliable and, therefore, merit publication in modern Bibles. “Whose Word is it?” is the fascinating history of the words themselves. Ehrman shows us where and why changes were made in our earliest surviving manuscripts, changes that continue to have a dramatic impact on widely-held beliefs concerning the divinity of Jesus, the Trinity, and the divine origins of the Bible itself. Many books have been written about why some books made it into the New Testament and why some didn’t (canonization) or about how the meaning of words changes when translated from Aramaic to Greek to English. But, this is the first time that a leading biblical scholar reveals for the general reader the many challenging - even disturbing - early variations of our cherished biblical stories and why only certain versions of those stories qualify for publication in the Bibles we read today.’

It is advertised at 256 pages rather than the x + 242 pages of Misquoting Jesus.

If the picture in the Continuum/T & T Clark catalogue is to be believed, the cover is identical to that of Misquoting Jesus, only the upside-down Hebrew letters are now bigger. At present the publisher’s website does not seem to have details of the book.

Obviously "Whose Word Is It?" = "Misquoting Jesus" with a different title.

As some here know,Dr. Ehrman recently visited Wieland Willker's textualcriticism list during a discussion of Mark 1:41. Then he seemed to disappear. I sure would like to discuss the texts that he focused on in "Misquoting Jesus" with him, in a quoteable forum, so as to make more obvious the important details that were left out of his readers' line of sight in "Misquoting Jesus." Dr. Ehrman is probably too busy for such a discussion, though.

I'd be honored to have any of you fellows take a look at this post I've just completed, which deconstructs Ehrman's presupposition regarding the need of perfect transmission of the text in order to a divine inspiration. If my thinking is off-base I'd appreciate any corrections/suggestions, since this is slated for publication at LifeWay.com. Thanks.